Venrez are a band that formed in Los Angeles in 2010 after some well established musicians came together almost by chance. The band toured extensively, including dates in Europe and released their first album “Sell The Lie” to great reviews. By 2012 the band was supporting rock legends Alice Cooper and Slash on tour. Their second album "American Illusion" was released earlier this year and it was recently announced that Venrez would be supporting Buckcherry and Hardcore Superstar on tour across Europe. This includes gigs in The Limelight in Belfast on 27th November and Academy in Dublin on 29th November.

The band consists of Steven Berez (or Ven) on vocals, Jason Womack on lead guitars & vocal, Alex Kane on guitar, Michael Bradford on bass and Ed Davis on drums. Lead singer Ven answered some questions for us recently.

_{(Check out an interview with Buckcherry front-man Josh Todd posted recently too - http://www.rockradioni.co.uk/interviews/1285-ni-rocks-interview-with-josh-todd-from-buckcherry.html)}

_{NI Rocks is running a competition on Facebook in conjunction with The Limelight  to win a pair of tickets to see Airbourne and Black Spiders in Limelight 1, Belfast on Monday 21st October. To have a chance of winning simply go to https://www.facebook.com/NIRocks share the poster and comment underneath.}

_{Winner will be notified on Sunday 20th October.}

_{As I’ve mentioned before I don’t write gig reviews, nor read them generally, but I have been known to take a few videos. Some people love them some don’t, but ain’t that always the way!?! Here are some videos from the first night of The Answer’s “New Horizon” tour in the Limelight, Belfast on Friday 11th October. (http://www.theanswer.ie/)}

_{Support was from Cage The Gods (http://www.cagethegods.com/)}